Team
We are the bidt
Dr. Christoph Egle
Managing Director for
Research and Think Tank
+49 89 540 235 610
christoph.egle@bidt.digital
Dr. Christoph Egle
Dr. Christoph Egle is the Managing Director for Research and Think Tank at the bidt. Having held various positions in political science research at the Universities of Heidelberg, Frankfurt/Main and LMU Munich, Dr. Egle has now switched to scientific policy advice and science management. At the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), he headed the Federal Government’s Innovation Dialogue office until 2018. Thereafter, he was head of the department for digital technologies in the Bavarian State Chancellery and the State Ministry for Digital Affairs before joining the bidt in June 2019.
Dr. Herbert Vogler
Managing Director for
Organisation, Finance and Dialogue
+49 89 540 235 642
herbert.vogler@bidt.digital
Dr. Herbert Vogler
Dr. Herbert Vogler is the Managing Director for Organisation, Finance and Dialogue at the bidt. He was previously a Divisional Manager at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria, where he was also responsible for innovation and digitisation. Between 2001 and 2013, he built up the business development company R-Tech GmbH for the city of Regensburg as Managing Director. Dr. Vogler is a natural scientist. During his doctorate, he worked on data analyses for determining surface structures.
Margret Hornsteiner
Head of Communications and Dialogue
+49 89 540 235 630
margret.hornsteiner@bidt.digital
Margret Hornsteiner
Margret Hornsteiner is the Head of Communications and Dialogue at the bidt. Before joining the bidt, she was a lecturer at the Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Bamberg and consultant at IFOK in the field of open government and citizen dialogue. Her research interests lie in the areas of participation, representation and citizen science.
Dr. Roland A. Stürz
Head of Think Tank
+49 89 540 235 620
roland.stuerz@bidt.digital
Dr. Roland A. Stürz
Dr. Roland A. Stürz is the Head of Think Tank at the bidt. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. Prior to that he worked in the Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, also in Munich. Dr. Stürz studied management at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the Copenhagen Business School. He holds a diploma degree in management, a Master of Business Research and a doctoral degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. He regularly teaches a course on innovation policy at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre. His research interests are in the domains of innovation policy, digital transformation and industry evolution.
Selected Publications:
Stürz, R. A. / Stumpf, C. / Mendel, U. (2020): Künstliche Intelligenz verstehen und gestalten: Ergebnisse und Implikationen einer bidt-Kurzbefragung in Deutschland, Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation, Analysen und Studien, München.
Stürz, R. A. / Suyer, A. / Harhoff, D. / Hilty, R. M. (2018): The Use of Copyright Protected Creative Online Content by German Consumers, in: Medien und Recht International 15 (2), 51–52.
Harhoff, D. / Hilty, R. M. / Stürz, R. A. / Suyer, A. (2018): Nutzung urheberrechtlich geschützter Inhalte im Internet durch deutsche Verbraucher – Ergebnisübersicht einer repräsentativen quantitativen Erhebung, Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb, München.
Harhoff, D. / Stürz, R. A. / Suyer, A. (2018): Impulse für Sprunginnovationen in Deutschland, in: Harhoff, D. / Kagermann, H. / Stratmann, M. (Hrsg.): acatech DISKUSSION, München.
Stürz, R. A. (2015): Imprinting and Inertia – Density Delay Revisited, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Research Paper, No. 15-16.
Stürz, R. A. (2014): Industrieevolution: Lokale Agglomeration, Markteintrittsbedingungen, vertikale Industriestrukturen und das Überleben von Firmen, München.
Kevin Altmann
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 619
kevin.altmann@bidt.digital
Kevin Altmann
Kevin Altmann is a Researcher at the bidt. He gained his Master’s Degree in Sociology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and is now planning to study for his doctorate. He is currently conducting investigations into evidence practising in Citizen Science. His other research interests are: qualitative methods in social science; the sociology of science; digital participation and online cultures; the sociology of material; and interpretive video analysis.
Nikolaus Bauer
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 618
nikolaus.bauer@bidt.digital
Nikolaus Bauer
Nikolaus Bauer is a Researcher at the bidt. He holds a Master’s degree in Law, specialising in Public Policy, from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Before joining the bidt, he worked for the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information as well as a public law firm. His key research interests include questions of liability for Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Christina Dieckhoff
Research Coordinator
+49 89 540 235 651
christina.dieckhoff@bidt.digital
Dr. Christina Dieckhoff
Christina Dieckhoff is a Research Coordinator at the bidt. From October 2015 to June 2020, as science manager and historian, she was a research officer and coordinator for the Young Academy at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. She was previously responsible for entrepreneurship in the CeTIM Institute, Bundeswehr University, Neubiberg and was a project manager of the Founders’ Academy at GründerRegio M, Munich. From 2003 to 2007 and during 2012 she worked in the research transfer unit at LMU Munich with a focus on technology transfer and research marketing.
Steliyana Doseva
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 624
steliyana.doseva@bidt.digital
Steliyana Doseva
Steliyana Doseva is a Researcher at the bidt. She studied journalism and communication science at the Free University of Berlin along with political science. During her studies she gained valuable experience in quantitative media research and political consulting. At the bidt she is conducting research into the regulation of digital video platforms, which is also her doctoral topic.
Dr. Jan Gogoll
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 615
jan.gogoll@bidt.digital
Dr. Jan Gogoll
Dr. Jan Gogoll is a Researcher at the bidt, whose focus is on behavioural economy and ethics. He has previously worked with the Technical University of Munich at the Chair of Business Ethics and was part of the junior research group “Ethics of Digitalisation”. He works on topics such as autonomous driving, ethical software development, game theory and experiments.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan_Gogoll
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=FzIB9qcAAAAJ&hl=de
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jan-gogoll-4164a6a4/
Selected Publications:
Gogoll, J., & Uhl, M. (2020). Leviathan for sale: The fallacy of trusting in people instead of institutions. European Journal of Political Economy, 74, 97-103.
Müller, J. F., & Gogoll, J. (2020). Should manual driving (eventually) be outlawed? Science and engineering ethics, 1-19.
Gogoll, J., & Uhl, M. (2018). Rage against the machine: Automation in the moral domain. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 74, 97-103.
Gogoll, J., & Müller, J. F. (2017). Autonomous cars: in favour of a mandatory ethics setting. Science and engineering ethics, 23(3), 681-700.
PD Dr. Angela Graf
Principal Investigator
+49 89 540 235 626
angela.graf@bidt.digital
PD Dr. Angela Graf
Dr. Angela Graf is a Principle Investigator at the bidt. Since 2020 she has been leading the project “#UmbruchIndustrie (Industry Disruption)”. Following her studies in sociology, business administration and law, she received a doctorate in 2014 at Darmstadt Technical University with her dissertation on the topic ‘Germany’s scientific elite’. She then worked as a post-doc at the Munich Centre for Technology in Society (MCTS) and at the Chair of Sociology of Science at the Technical University of Munich, before her 2020 habilitation in sociology on the topic of “Herrschaftsverhältnisse in Bewegung – Transformationsdynamiken im wissenschaftlichen Feld Deutschlands” (Power relations on the move – Dynamics of transformation in the German academic field). Her work and research focuses on structural, institutional and organisational transformations, with a focus on power and power relations. In addition, she deals with elite sociology and questions of social inequality in science.
Selected Publications:
- Graf, Angela (2020, im Erscheinen): Hochschulräte revisited. Eine empirische Analyse im Lichte der Governancereform und des Exzellenzwettbewerbs. In: Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung.
- Graf, Angela/Lueg, Klarissa (2020, im Erscheinen): The Organization of Higher Education. An Overview of Sociological Research into Universities as Organizations. In: Godwyn, Mary (Hrsg.): Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations. Northhampton: Edgar Elgar Publishing.
- Graf, Angela/Lueg, Klarissa/Powell, Justin (2020, im Erscheinen): Hegemonic University Tales. Discussing Narrative Positioning within the Academic Field between Humboldtian and Managerial Governance. In: Lundholt, Marianne Wolff/Lueg, Klarissa (Hrsg.): Dimensions of Counter-Narratives. New York: Routledge.
- Graf, Angela/Keil, Maria/Ullrich, Peter (2020): Exit, Voice und Loyalty. (Un-)Möglichkeiten kollektiven Widerspruchs im akademischen Mittelbau in Deutschland. In: Leviathan 48/2, S. 293-317.
- Graf, Angela/Lueg, Klarissa (2019): Designing the Organizational Future: How German Universities Communicate Governance by means of Corporate Design. In: Communication & Language at Work 6/2, S. 42-54.
- Graf, Angela (2019): Kohäsion durch Kampf?! Überlegungen zur Bedeutung von Loyalität für Hochschulen. In: Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung 2019/1. Sonderheft „Diskurs, Feld, Subjektivierung. Empirische und theoretische Perspektiven“, S. 94-112.
- Graf, Angela (2015): Die Wissenschaftselite Deutschlands. Sozialprofil und Werdegänge zwischen 1945 und 2013. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.
Nadine Hildebrandt
Science Communication Manager
+49 89 540 235 631
nadine.hildebrandt@bidt.digital
Nadine Hildebrandt
Nadine Hildebrandt is a Science Communication Manager at the bidt focusing on editing, publications and press relations. She studied German literature, sociology and business administration in Hannover. Before starting at the bidt, she worked in corporate communications for an international commercial vehicle manufacturer. She is focussing particularly on promoting dialogue between politics, business and science in an informative, innovative and sustainable way.
Dr. Andreas Hummler
Research Coordinator
+49 89 540 235 614
andreas.hummler@bidt.digital
Andreas Hummler
Dr. Andreas Hummler is a Research Coordinator at the bidt. He is responsible for the area of ‘Digitalisation of Economics and Labour’. From 2016 to 2021 he was employed as a scientific assistant and lecturer of economics at the University of Applied Sciences, Kehl. He earned his Ph.D. in economics as a member of the Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) at the University of Strasbourg from 2017-2021. He also holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Hamburg, having previously studied political science at the University of Mannheim. From 2014-2015 he was an advisor in innovation policy at the German Shipbuilding and Ocean Industries Association in Hamburg. His research interests include regional economics, resilience research, innovation research and econometrics.
Katharina Hundhammer
Assistant of Communications and Dialogue
+49 89 540 235 634
katharina.hundhammer@bidt.digital
Katharina Hundhammer
Katharina Hundhammer is the Assistant of Communications and Dialogue at the bidt with a key focus on events. In addition, she supports the organisation of internal board meetings and acts as a substitute for the team- and HR-assistant. She studied English Linguistics, Literary Studies and Cultural Studies as well as Cultural Anthropology at Heidelberg University, before moving to events management in 2012. She was previously an events manager at the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
Martina Klein
Team Assistant and HR Manager
+49 89 540 235 640
martina.klein@bidt.digital
Martina Klein
Martina Klein is the Team Assistant and HR Manager at the bidt.
Alexander Künzner
Financial Administrator and Accountant
+49 89 540 235 641
alexander.kuenzner@bidt.digital
Alexander Künzner
Alexander Künzner is a Financial Administrator and Accountant at the bidt.
Ulrike Mendel
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 621
ulrike.mendel@bidt.digital
Ulrike Mendel
Ulrike Mendel is a Researcher at the bidt Think Tank. Having graduated in Information Science, Business Informatics and Music, she has been working for several years as a Software Developer, focussing particularly on the Web. Her main areas of expertise are Data Analysis, Software Development and Music Information Retrieval.
Lea Müller
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 628
lea.mueller@bidt.digital
Lea Müller
Lea Müller is a Researcher at the bidt, currently carrying out research into digital transformation strategies in the automotive industry as part of the interdisciplinary project #UmbruchIndustrie (Industry Disruption). Before joining the bidt, she worked for a digital service provider, gaining valuable insights into the digital transformation of numerous companies across a wide range of industries. She had previously worked for a tech company, acquiring practical experience in strategy and start-up consulting. Lea studied sociology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen, at the Jagielloński University of Krakow and at the Technical University of Dresden. She is currently working on her doctorate.
Hannes Putfarken
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 636
hannes.putfarken@bidt.digital
Hannes Putfarken
Hannes Putfarken is a Researcher at the bidt Think Tank. Previously, he worked at the CCI for Munich and Upper Bavaria in the Economic Policy Unit of the Executive Board. There he was responsible for reducing bureaucracy and thereby helped shape the CCI’s strategic and political orientation. He studied Economics, Journalism as well as Political Science and is a member of the Dortmund Centre for data-based Media Analysis (DoCMA).
Valerie Rhein
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 623
valerie.rhein@bidt.digital
Valerie Rhein
Valerie Rhein is a Researcher at the bidt, working in the bidt project “Coding Public Value”. She is also associated to the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) as a junior researcher. Following her studies at the Universities of Passau and Seville, she gained a Bachelor’s degree in Media and Communication, with a focus on communication-centred political theory. Thereafter, she sat her first state examination in law in Leipzig with a focus on media law. During her law studies, she has gained further interdisciplinary and intercultural experience as a Research Fellow, working at the universities of Jakarta and Malang. She is particularly interested in the connection between public law and digitalisation, hence her engagement in network policy, freedom and equal rights.
Jan Schillmöller
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 625
jan.schillmoeller@bidt.digital
Jan Schillmöller
Jan Schillmöller is a Researcher at the bidt. He studied law at the University of Münster and majored in information, telecommunications and media law before taking his first state examination. As part of his doctoral studies at the bidt he is currently conducting research within the project “Challenges in the regulation of digital video platforms”.
Antonia Schlude
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 635
antonia.schlude@bidt.digital
Antonia Schlude
Antonia Schlude is a Researcher at the bidt Think Tank. She studied Political Science at the Georg August University of Göttingen, the Jagiellonski University of Krakau as well as the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. During her studies she gained valuable practical experience in various security and defence policy consultations as well as a thorough knowledge of political theory.
Michaela Schneider
Financial Administrator and Accountant
+49 89 540 235 643
michaela.schneider@bidt.digital
Michaela Schneider
Michaela Schneider is a Financial Administrator and Accountant at the bidt.
Klaus Staudacher
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 617
klaus.staudacher@bidt.digital
Klaus Staudacher
Klaus Staudacher is a Researcher at the bidt. He holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy (Philosophy, French and International Law) and has worked as a graduate teaching assistant at the chair of Philosophy and Political Theory (Prof. J. Nida-Rümelin), LMU Munich, along with other chairs of practical philosophy. His main research interests comprise issues of moral responsibility in AI systems and more generally ethical questions to do with digital transformation.
Dr. Maria Staudte
Research Coordinator
+49 89 540 235 652
maria.staudte@bidt.digital
Maria Staudte
Dr. Maria Staudte is a Research Coordinator at the bidt with overall responsibility for the doctoral programme. Prior to this, she was head of a junior research group in the Saarland University’s Cluster of Excellence, where she conducted research into speech processing in human-human and human-machine interaction. Finally, she worked as a Principal Investigator and member of the board of directors in a Collaborative Research Centre, covering various topics including data protection and empirical data collection. Through these activities, Dr. Staudte brings to the bidt extensive experience in teaching, research, management and, in particular, the supervision and counselling of doctoral students from various research areas.
Selected Publications:
- Christine Ankener, Mirjana Sekicki and Maria Staudte
“The influence of visual uncertainty on word predictability and processing effort”. Frontiers in Psychology, 2018. - Laura Fraedrich, Fabrizio Nunnari, Maria Staudte and Alexis Heloir
“(Simulated) listener gaze in real-time spoken interaction”. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (Special Issue CASA’18), 29(3-4):e1831-e1841, 2018. - Nikolina Mitev, Patrick Renner, Thies Pfeiffer and Maria Staudte
“Towards efficient human-machine collaboration in real world: Effects of gaze-driven feedback and engagement on performance”. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3(1):1-51, 2018. [https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-018-0148-x]
Further Publications: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~masta/pubs.html
Michael Stehling
Research Coordinator
+49 89 540 235 611
michael.stehling@bidt.digital
Michael Stehling
Christian Stumpf
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 612
christian.stumpf@bidt.digital
Christian Stumpf
Christian Stumpf is a Researcher at the bidt Think Tank. He previously worked as a sociologist at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research and for more than 10 years at a well-known market and public opinion research institute. His main interests are (automated) data processing and empirical social research.
Jan Tinapp
Researcher
+49 89 540235629
jan.tinapp@bidt.digital
Jan Tinapp
Jan Tinapp is a Researcher at the bidt. As part of the project Human-AI partnerships, which is seeking a deeper understanding of complex socio-technical systems, he is investigating how artificial intelligence can continually learn through interaction with humans. He studied computer science at the Technical University of Berlin, with a focus on cognitive systems. Before joining the bidt, he worked as a machine learning expert in computer vision.
Verena Urmann
Science Communication Manager
+49 89 540 235 632
verena.urmann@bidt.digital
Verena Urmann
Verena Urmann is a Science Communication Manager at the bidt with a focus on brand management, social media and the Web. Previously, she was responsible for social media and content coordination at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria. She also worked as a senior consultant at the communications agency Weber Shandwick. She studied political science, European ethnology and modern German literature. Her interests include digital communications and the formation of public opinion.
Dr. Andreas Wenninger
Research Coordinator
+49 89 540 235 622
andreas.wenninger@bidt.digital
Dr. Andreas Wenninger
Dr. Andreas Wenninger is a Research Coordinator at the bidt. He is also a member of the DFG Research Group 2448 “Evidence Practices in Science, Medicine, Technology and Society”. From 2015-2019 he was a Research Associate at TU Munich (Digital Media Lab of the Munich Centre for Technology in Society and at the Chair of Sociology of Science). In 2012/2013 he was a lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, Leibniz University, Hannover, having from 2006 to 2012 been a research assistant at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University. He holds a Diploma in Sociology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. His research interests are: science communication and social media; media and the public; along with participatory science and citizen science.
Projects
https://www.bidt.digital/dfgprojekt-cizitenscience/
Selected Publications:
Wenninger, Andreas und Dickel, Sascha (2019): Paradoxien digital-partizipativer Wissenschaft. Zur sozio-epistemischen Grenzarbeit in Citizen Science und Wissenschaftsblogs. In: Österreich Zeitschrift für Soziologie 44 (Suppl 1), Sonderheft 19 Digitalization and Society, hrsg. von Christoph Musik und Alexander Bogner, S. 257–286. DOI: 10.1007/s11614-019-00357-0 [Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen] .
Wenninger, Andreas (2019): Digitale Grenzkämpfe der Wissenschaft: Boundary-Work am Beispiel eines Blogportals (Dissertation). Springer VS: Wiesbaden. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-25298-4 [Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen]
Weingart, Peter; Wormer, Holger; Wenninger, Andreas; Hüttl, Reinhard F. (Hg.) (2017): Perspektiven der Wissenschaftskommunikation im digitalen Zeitalter. Velbrück GmbH Bücher und Medien. Weilerswist: Velbrück.
Schirmer, Dominique; Sander, Nadine und Wenninger, Andreas (Hg.) (2015): Die qualitative Analyse internetbasierter Daten. Methodische Herausforderungen und Potenziale von Online-Medien. Springer VS.
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Larissa Wöll
Science Communication Manager
+49 89 540 235 633
larissa.woell@bidt.digital
Larissa Wöll
Larissa Wöll is a Science Communication Manager at the bidt, where she focuses on conceptualising, organising and holding events. With a political science background, she previously worked as a Research Fellow at the ISF Munich. She is especially interested in both civic and social participation as well as dialogue to do with Digital Transformation.
Fabian Zimmer
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 627
fabian.zimmer@bidt.digital
Fabian Zimmer
Fabian Zimmer is a Researcher at the bidt. He is undertaking research into “#UmbruchIndustrie (Industry Disruption): Challenges of strategy formation for German industry in a new phase of digital transformation – focus on the automobile sector”. Previously, he studied business administration in Münster, Munich, Beijing and Kristiansand with a focus on innovation and finance. During this time, he also gained practical experience in the automotive industry, strategy consulting and politics.
Niina Zuber
Researcher
+49 89 540 235 616
niina.zuber@bidt.digital
Niina Zuber
Niina Zuber is a Researcher at the bidt with a focus on ethics. She was previously a research consultant at Cognostics AG (start-up in the field of software development). She is engaged in the topics of application-oriented rationality theory, ethical software design and the normative conception of platforms for digital citizen participation. Before joining the bidt, she worked for many years at the LMU Munich and the Centre for Digitalisation Bavaria (Z.DB).